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  • Since the legitimacy of our transition to democracy and our programme to create a better life for all is difficult to contest head-on by forces opposed to change; they have been using all sorts of other deflectionary messages to undermine this programme.

    The balance of forces 2002

  • this whole thing about trying to equate Luskin and Dawkins credibility is deflectionary nonsense.

    Casey Luskin on the Origin of Genetic Information? - The Panda's Thumb 2007

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